Men's Hockey's Alex Biega Named Skills Challenge Alternate

Biega and the Crimson
will take on the Big Red for a berth in the ECAC semifinals (photo
courtesy Patrick Shanahan).

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Senior defenseman Alex
Biega of the Harvard men’s hockey team has been named an
alternate for the men’s East squad that will compete in the
NCAA Frozen Four Skills Challenge April 9 in Detroit, the NCAA
announced Wednesday.

Biega, the Crimson’s 116th captain, will be among the
candidates to participate in the event if one of the six selected
skaters is injured or his team reaches the Frozen Four. A preseason
All-America selection by Inside College Hockey, he earned All-Ivy
League honorable mention this season. He has 10 points on two goals
and eight assists.

The Frozen Four Skills Challenge will be held April 9 at Ford
Field and will highlight the “Friday Night at the Frozen
Four” event. The night will also include the presentation of
the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, the Hockey Humanitarian Award and
the announcement of the American Hockey Coaches Association
All-America teams.

Biega has logged 70 career points on 15 goals and 55 assists.
His assists total is tied for the career lead among active Crimson
players and is the most by a Harvard defenseman since Derek Maguire
’94 logged 71 helpers from 1991-94. The Montreal native is
one of three Biega brothers on the Crimson this season. He and
younger brothers Michael and Danny are the second trio of brothers
to simultaneously skate for Harvard.

Harvard swept an ECAC first-round series at Princeton last
weekend. The Crimson visits ninth-ranked Cornell for a quarterfinal
series Friday-Sunday in Ithaca, N.Y.